Sunday, November 29, 2015

Of Interest

A week or so ago on WAMC, Alan Chartock spoke with Roberta Gratz, journalist, urban critic, lecturer, author, and friend of Hudson, who featured our fair city in her 2000 book Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown, coauthored with Norman Mintz, about her most recent book, We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City. The discussion is a lot about New Orleans, understandably, and a lot about New York City, but in the course of the hour-long conversation Gratz has much to say about affordable housing and gentrification that is has relevance for the residents and policy makers of Hudson. Click here to listen.

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This blog takes its name from the 1850 novel by Hudson author Alice B. Neal. The original Gossips of Rivertown cast a gimlet eye on Hudson society in the mid-19th century. More than a century and a half later, the new Gossips carries on the spirit of the original, but in a different genre and with a different focus.